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Friday, November 4, 2011

This is an interesting article detailing how thousands of
fragments of ancient scrolls are spread out across the globe, and how a computer
program can virtually "glue"
the pieces back together even though
the pieces belong to different museums and storage facilities and never
physically meet up again.

Too cool.

The researchers are
now applying the … technology to fragments of the Dead
Sea Scrolls, a collection of hundreds of text found along the Dead Sea in
the 1950s, as well as other scrolls.

"It's a more
complicated challenge," Wolf said, referring to the Dead Sea Scrolls. "The
fragments are for the most part much smaller, and many of the texts are very
unique. These texts shed light on the beginnings of Christianity."